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Below is a family biography included in The History of East Tennessee published by Goodspeed Publishing Company in 1887.  These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary.  Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more.  There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.

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Dr. J. C. Cawood, of Dandridge, was born near Speedwell, Claiborne County, July 4, 1830, and was educated at Powell’s Valley Academy, at Speedwell, and at Franklin Academy, at Jacksboro, and for one year in the University of Tennessee. Typhoid fever prevented his further attendance, especially as he was compelled to work mornings and evenings for his board. He read medicine under the late Dr. Collins, of Meigs County, and attended lectures, and graduated from Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, in 1859. In April of that year he married Annie E. Eastham, of Flint Hill, Va. Two of their children are deceased, and those living are Charles M., Robert A. and Nellie V. Charles and Robert were educated at the University of Tennessee, and the one studying medicine and the other law. His daughter, a bright young lady, was educated by teachers at home and at Rogersville Female College. Our subject has a high reputation as a physician and surgeon, extensively employed at home during the war. He is a prominent Mason, having served as Worshipful Master for eighteen years, and his Chapter as H. P., for fourteen years. He has also served as Junior Grand Warden, and Grand Master of the Grand Lodge, the latter of which he filled with distinction. He is also P. D. G. H. P. of the Grand Chapter of Tennessee. He took the stump against secession, and in 1880 was an alternate to the Cincinnati convention which nominated Hancock and a delegate and in 1884 to the convention which nominated Cleveland.

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This family biography is one of 938 biographies included in The History of East Tennessee published in 1887.  For the complete description, click here: History of East Tennessee

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